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From ms_ntropy
"The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed."
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Strike out the books you have no intention of ever reading, or were forced to read at school and hated.
5) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them ;-)
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - It's embarrassing that I've never read this.
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - I liked it but didn't think it was all that.
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte - I think I've read this, but, honestly, I'm not quite sure. I did read "Wide Sargasso Sea", so I think I've read this. I should probably read it again.
4 The Harry Potter Series - JK Rowling - I started reading Harry Potter right before 9/11 and just haven't ever picked it up again. I probably will at some point...
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee -- Read it when I was younger, and it confirmed my feeling that something just wasn't right in my crazy conservative town.
6 The Bible - My response to this deserves its own entry.
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - I should read this again now that I'm actually in a healthy relationship. I have the feeling I'll find it irritating now that I know better.
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell - So brilliant and sadly always current.
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman - No thank you.
10 Great Expectations - Um, this is also embarrassing.
"The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed."
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Strike out the books you have no intention of ever reading, or were forced to read at school and hated.
5) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them ;-)
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - It's embarrassing that I've never read this.
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - I liked it but didn't think it was all that.
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte - I think I've read this, but, honestly, I'm not quite sure. I did read "Wide Sargasso Sea", so I think I've read this. I should probably read it again.
4 The Harry Potter Series - JK Rowling - I started reading Harry Potter right before 9/11 and just haven't ever picked it up again. I probably will at some point...
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee -- Read it when I was younger, and it confirmed my feeling that something just wasn't right in my crazy conservative town.
6 The Bible - My response to this deserves its own entry.
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - I should read this again now that I'm actually in a healthy relationship. I have the feeling I'll find it irritating now that I know better.
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell - So brilliant and sadly always current.
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman - No thank you.
10 Great Expectations - Um, this is also embarrassing.